As everyone knows, we’re building out massive amounts of wind and solar power with the huge subsidies the Biden regime rammed through, but as knowledgeable people (that would exclude the White House) know, none of this works even in theory if you don’t build a significant amount of new high-voltage transmission lines from where the windmills and grid-scale solar panels are—typically rural areas far from where the electricity is needed.
A study just out from the excellent Energy Markets and Policy Lab at UC Berkeley include this significant finding from wind and solar power providers—pay special attention to the second horizontal bar:
The lack of ability to connect to the grid turns out to be more significant than direct environmental restrictions.
How have we been doing at expanding the grid? Not good:
Here’s a simpler version of the same data:
There is currently a bipartisan permitting reform bill pending in Congress, the Manchin-Barrasso Bill, to enable expanding the grid, will be necessary in any case regardless of power source on account of the large projected electricity demand increase over the next 20 years. I haven’t read the bill, and my default position is that it likely doesn’t go far enough in rolling back overregulation.
But guess who opposes it? Almost every major environmental group:
It’s almost as though green groups don’t really want “green” energy to succeed. . .
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